The last post on the subject I could find was a year ago. So thought I would ask again. I have debian 12 up on miniPC and I have my NAS mounted. My intention is to use jellyfin and some of the arr* stuff. I know only a little about systemd (I just google what I need to know). I have some contianer knowledge, but mostly in k8s. And the docker parts aren't really my problem. But I have a vague understanding of docker. What are the latest pros and cons of containers vs service installation?

Edit: The opinions were unanimous. Containers it is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

For the arr stack, I run Jellyfin-server, radarr, prowlarr, jellyseer and sonarr in containers using docker compose. For updates, I just crontab a script once a week that does a "docker compose down && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d" in each of the compose directories.

Bit of faff setting everything up, but once it's done, it's very solid.